LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – In June, Poets and Writers, a national organization that supports working writers, renewed their grant to the Lake County Arts Council and The Writers Circle.  

This grant supports the free public writing workshop offered monthly in Lakeport at the Main Street Art Gallery, 325 N. Main St., at 6:30 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month.  

The Lake County Arts Council sponsors the workshop, and former Lake County Poet Laureate Mary McMillan facilitates it.

Residents from all over Lake County are welcome to attend the Writers Circle and join other writers who share memoirs, fiction, essays or poems they have written – or just listen and get inspired.  

More seasoned writers and writers just beginning join together to offer feedback, build skills and find new ideas.  

Aged 19 to 90, some people come only one or two times, and others show up every month.

Poets and Writers provides this grant through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.

For more information contact Mary McMillan at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .